Interests
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Environment and Natural Resource Management
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Adaptive Management
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Social/Ecological Systems
Curriculum Vitae
Educational Background
Juris Doctorate, 1998
University of Idaho College of Law
Law Review Comment: Was the Lorax an Outfitter and Guide? A Shift in Idaho’s Standing Doctrine: Boundary Backpackers v. Boundary County and Selkirk-Priest Basin Ass’n v. State, 34 Idaho Law Review 127 (1997), Dale Goble, Advisor
Bachelor of Arts with Honors, 1991
University of Oregon
Honors thesis: Consensus Decisionmaking in the Public Realm: a Practical and Theoretical Consideration of Plurality,” Deborah Baumgold, Advisor.
Courses Taught
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Nature and Society
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Environmental Management
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Public Land Management
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Seminar in Natural Resource Management
Selected Publications
Benson, M.H. and A.G. Garmestani. 2011. “Embracing panarchy, building resilience and integrating adaptive management through a rebirth of the National Environmental Policy Act,” Journal of Environmental Management 92(5):1420 –1427.
Benson, M.H. 2010. “Regional Initiatives: Scaling the Climate Response and Responding to Conceptions of Scale,”Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100: 1025 – 1035.
Benson, M.H. 2010. “Adaptive Management Approaches by Resource Management Agencies in the United States: Implications for Energy Development in the Interior West,” Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 28 (1) 87-118.
Benson, M.H. 2010. “Legislative Reallocation: How Compliance with Federal Legislative Initiatives including the Endangered Species Act Results in the Redistribution of Water Resources,” Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 144: 1-7.
Benson, M.H. 2010. “Are We Addicted to Oil? Lessons from Mental Health,” Southwestern Geographer 14: 121-136
Benson, M.H. 2009. “Integrating Adaptive Management and Oil and Gas Development: Existing Obstacles and Opportunities for Reform,” Environmental Law Reporter 39: 10962-78.
Administrative Duties
Symposium Coordinator
